Advantech Embedded has a plan to bring the US concept of the Internet of Things to the UK embedded market.
The company has a five year plan to take the strategies from their initial articulation in the Far East,North America and elsewhere,to the UK and Europe.
Advantech will base this on developing hardware and software for market sectors such as traffic management and environmental monitoring,in collaboration with Microsoft,Intel and channel partners in these markets.
"Software development will allow hardware and operating systems to cooperate more fluently in typical industrial cloud solutions,and also provide easier maintenance and services for the complete system,"said the company.
The so-called Internet of Things refers to internet based control,information and social media services that can be used to collect and control data anywhere anytime and deriving intelligence from these data.
"RFID and M2M have been applied in the same way,but Internet of Things goes much further.Automation devices backed by cloud intelligence will gather data from sensors buried in the environment and many other places to auto-manage our industrial systems and urban areas,"said Advantech.
For example,intelligent sensors with self-judgment features can enable sleep modes when the power supply is low.
The intention then is to create the so-called"ubiquitous network"where the Internet of Things is built into in all things and complete object-to-object omnipresent communication has become a reality.
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